Experiment 110
0085 tested true keyword columnar (issue #26) with the puzzle's own 201 words. Here the column key is any word of the project dictionary (233,000 words, read with repeated letters dropped and as the whole word with ties left to right), every distinct column order once, forward and inverse, with a repeating key of length 1-26 after or before the shuffle.
What the method does with the 24 known letters.
A classic way to move letters: write the messagethe message The 97 letters of English that Jim Sanborn wrote and enciphered. under a secret word in rows, then read the columns in the alphabetical order of the word's letters. Experiment 85 tried the puzzle's own words. Here every word in an English dictionary is tried as the column word, followed or preceded by a short repeating secret word on the tablethe table The right-hand half of the sculpture, 26 rows of the alphabet each shifted one place further, starting from the word KRYPTOS., against the 24 known lettersthe known letters Sanborn has confirmed that positions 22 to 34 of the message read EASTNORTHEAST and positions 64 to 74 read BERLINCLOCK..
Words in the margin are defined on the glossary page.
The carved letters go in at the top; the reading comes out at the bottom.
A keyword column shuffle writes the message in rows under a word and reads the columns in the word's alphabetical order. Here every word in the dictionary is the key, once forwards and once as the undoing.
After the shuffle a repeating secret word on the table must give the copper's letters where the known letters landed; two known letters in one slot of the word must agree.
459,268 routes, keys of 1 to 26 letters before or after: nothing below 22. The one count outside the scrambled coppers' range, period 23 after the move, is below it.
This experiment produced no candidate: the search ruled everything out before a full text was built. Its product is the bounded negative in section 7.
Redo the method on a few letters with pencil and paper.
The same steps run by the code on the real letters.
SHADOW: columns read in the order [3, 4, 2, 5, 1, 6]
place letter lands at copper there
22 E 20 B
23 A 52 J
24 S 85 I
25 T 69 T
64 B 27 Q
Family, key space, the constraint under test, and the clues it reads.
Type 1 (C1, 'double matrixes... then went back to this table'); K3's NSA route is a keyword columnar by KRYPTOS (01-facts.md). Column orders: keyword_sequence (repeats dropped, alphabetical order of the key letters, ties left to right) and full_sequence (whole word) from every dictionary word of 2-30 letters, deduplicated (the same order from different words counts once), each as a single columnar transposition, forward and inverse. Key: periodic 1-26 after the move (slot = carved place mod p) or before it, 8 tableau classes, exact by slot agreement. Ten shuffled coppers.
Written before the run; the result decides it.
Nothing consistent below period 20; counts at every period inside the coppers' range, give or take one. Zero candidates.
The harness's record: candidates, gates, loss, and the negative result this experiment leaves behind.
229,634 distinct column orders from 234,428 words, 459,268 routes x 8 classes x 2 orders, periods 1-26. K4 live below 20: 0. Outside the control range: {'A': [23], 'B': []}.
What was searched, as the harness recorded it.
How this experiment sits among the others is on the lineage page; its family's open hypotheses are on the families page.